Open raw drive without formatting

I have a disk from a laptop that died.

The disk is functioning correctly and not broken, but it is in RAW file system format and I cannot open it from windows.

I have tried mounting it in a virtual machine with virtualbox but i get an access denied error.

My question is how can I get the files from this drive.Any method is acceptable, file recovery software, formatting to NFTS without erasing data or mounting it on a linux system in a VM

2 Answers

I ended up using Test Disk to open the disk through the console with the help of This article.

Then I just copied the important files to my computer.

You can boot Hiren's BootCD and use Mini WindowsXP to easily copy files from your old drive to new location (i.e. external HDD).